The police have the exact driving route for the car that was used on Sunday during the abduction of a 20-year-old man in Tolga in Østerdalen.
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The Toyota RAV 4 rental car was equipped with GPS tracking.
– Data on the driving route has been handed over to the police, on the basis of an extradition request, the general manager of Bilkollektivet Morten Munch-Olsen informs VG.
Two men have so far been arrested and charged with deprivation of liberty, after a 20-year-old man and his parents on Sunday night were exposed to violence at home in Tolga north in Østerdalen.
One accused pleads guilty, the other does not. The police in the Inland have said that they do not rule out that more people may be arrested.
The 20-year-old was shot during the abduction and taken to the car. Only on Sunday night did he recover when he reported to the police from a train on its way from Gardermoen to Hamar.
One of the hypotheses that the police are investigating is the motive for the abduction may have been debt.
VG has been in contact with the Innlandet police district, which states that they will only be available to the press on Thursday afternoon.
–With 700 cars in Oslo, Bilkollektivet is the country’s largest car sharing service.
Munch-Olsen confirms that the car that night until Monday was found in Stor-Elvdal, was rented from Bilkollektivet, but can not provide details about the reservation.
GPS is not sabotaged
– We have identification of the customer via bank ID and driver’s license register, know which mobile was used to order, when the car was reserved and for what period, says Munch-Olsen.
The cars are opened and closed via an app on the customer’s mobile phone.
– This system relies on GPS tracking.
– The newspaper Østlendingen writes that the GPS must have been removed?
In that case, they have tried to remove the visible component, a card reader on the windshield. But the brain, the GPS tracking itself, is inside the car and is not sabotaged.
He explains that GPS is not related to the navigation screen in the car.
–After the 20-year-old and the perpetrators left the rental car on a farm by national road 3 in Stor-Elvdal on Sunday night, they continued in a taxi.
Munch-Olsen is absolutely certain that Bilkollektivet has tracking data for this lease.
– This is data on the exact route that we do not store, but we managed to retrieve them from the system before they were deleted, when the police quickly requested them extradited.
– Smarter to steal a car
The car collective also has a log on the mobile phone that was used to open and close the car along the way and consequently knows how long the perpetrators were out of the car on Tolga.
– Car rental is not anonymous, it is quite the opposite. We have such good tracking and control of identification and cars that it should be well done to get better, says Morten Munch-Olsen.
He believes it was a mistake to use a vehicle from Bilkollektivet.
– It would be smarter of them to steal a car or use a private car that is not so overwhelmed by technology.
Kripos assists the Inland Police District with the tactical investigation.
